• Eat_Your_Paisley
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    12 days ago

    Why would staffers want personal chat threads on a device that is subject to FOIA?

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      12 days ago

      Its baffling to me tbh. I was once federal IT and got a death glare for suggesting somebody not use their family wide shared icloud account on a device subject to FOIA. Particularly given the (admittedly, entirely hypothetical) potential for every connected device to be seized and wiped in the event of data spillage.

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        11 days ago

        I don’t know the demographics of congressional staffers but I could imagine a recent grad trying to live on recent grad pay in DC could see the .gov phone as one less bill every month